Yet the true impact begins not with invention, but adoption. That’s when the second and third-order effects kick in. After all, the automobile was important not because it ended travel by horse, but because it created suburbs, gas stations and shopping malls

A few tangible themes we picked up on are:

Stand-alone brands are shifting to open platforms for co-creation

Open platforms built on a brand`s intellectual property enhance the value, not threaten it

Open platforms provide enterprise-level capabilities to the smallest players, leveling the playing field, accelerating innovation, and amplifying competition

Open platforms for co-creation shifts the focus away from driving out inefficiencies, and toward the power of networking and collaboration to create value.

Where its happening already: Federal, State, City, Commercial

In FedFocus 2014, they also emphasized that with the budget appropriations for 2014 and 2015, two big disruptive areas will continue to be in Open Data and Big Data. Especially, with the May 2013 release of the WhiteHouse Open Data memorandum for going into effect in November 2013, it will impact Open Data by:

Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information, this Memorandum establishes a framework to help institutionalize the principles of effective information management at each stage of the information`s life cycle to promote interoperability and openness. Whether or not particular information can be made public, agencies can apply this framework to all information resources to promote efficiency and produce value.

Go Code Colorado was created to help Colorado companies grow, by giving them better and more usable access to public data. Teams will compete to build business apps, creating tools that Colorado businesses actually need, making our economy stronger.

We had previously tweeted on how IBM opened up their Watson cognitive computing API for developers…. publicly. This is a big deal. They know with open data platforms as an ecosystem, they not only get more use, which means more comfort, which means more apps, but every transaction that happens on it, that is legally allowed, they to improve their interpretative signals that make Watson so wicked smart. This article points this key example out as well.

And back to National Data Assets moving ahead to make their data more distributable over the cloud, moving data closer to cloud applications, offering data via web services where they are too large or updated too often to sync, download, or sneakernet.

Xentity and its partners have been at the forefront of all these movements.

We have enjoyed being on the leading edge since the early leading edge phases of this movement. Our architectures are less on commodity IT, which not to undersell the importance of affordable, fast, robust, scalable, enabling IT services and data center models. Our architectures have been more focused on putting the I back in IT.

Our architecture methods (Developing a Transformation Approach) are slanted to examine mission oriented performance gains, process efficiencies, data lifecycle management orientation, integrating service models, and balancing the technology footprint while innovating. For instance, we are heavily involved in the new ACT-IAC Smart Lean Government efforts to look at aligning services across government and organizational boundaries around community life events much like other nations are beginning to move to.

Xentity is very excited about the open data movements and supported platforms and the traction it is getting in industry. This may move us forward from information services into the popular space to and for knowledge services (Why we focus on spatial data science)